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Marine Careers :: Oceanography
At these active hydrothermal vent sites, oceanographers observed thriving populations of hundreds of "new" species, including tube worms and giant clams. "Black smoker" chimneys also were observed, venting hot, metal-rich fluid that generates from within the Earth's crust and can reach temperatures ...
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EIA Kid's Page Energy News
Some scientists suggest that photosynthesis does not depend solely on the sun. Deep-sea hydrothermal vents contain many life forms, including tube worms and eyeless crabs that thrive near the 350C water. Because of the superheated water, the vents glow with infrared ...
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Deep sea hydrothermal vents
These tube-worms grow in large clusters around the vents and live inside hard, shell-like protective tubes that ... bacteria that may hold clues as to how life on earth began billions of years ago. These worms lack mouths, anuses, intestines and stomachs. Scientists were at a loss to explain how these tube- ...
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A Walk Through Time - 4,000 Million Years Ago - The Extremists
Top: Extremists bask in this sulfuric-acid-rich river, Rio Tinto, Huelva, Spain. (Photograph by Annabel Lopez Ricardo Amils) Bottom: Extremist microbes inside tube worms form the cornerstone of this 20th century deep-sea hydrothermal vent system. (Photograph courtesy JASON Foundation for Education) Glossary | Home | Questions or comments, E-mail ...
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Unique Vabbinfaru Lotus Reef
Every form of reef life has been observed to be attracted to the structures, and none to be repelled. However it is the organisms with limestone skeletons, such as corals, clams, oysters, barnacles, tube worms, and sand-producing algae that are especially promoted, allowing them to outgrow the weedy algae that would overgrow and kill ...
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Special bacteria feed on the chemicals that pour out of the vents; in turn, the bacteria become food for large clams, crabs, anemones, and tube worms. Those animals cluster around "chimneys" that form around the vents because of mineral build-up. What to Do: Ask your class ...
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The Deep Sea at MarineBio.org - Ocean biology, Marine life, Sea creatures, Marine conservation...
IMCS Deep Sea Microbiology Lab videos: Black Smoker | Tube Worms | Pompeii Worms | Zoarcid Fish | Crabs And The Deep Sea is in trouble too: Sea bed trawling, ... vent communities. The hydrogen sulfide is turned into energy by bacteria that live inside the worms. References Marine Biology, an ecological approach, James W. Nybakken. Chapter 4: Deep Sea Biology Susan M. ...
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Marine Invertebrates and Plants - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Mollusks are taxonomically related to annelids (segmented worms) and pogonophora (deep-sea tube worms). About Marine Plants There are several categories of marine plants, including seagrasses, mangroves, and algae. Seagrasses, such as Johnson's seagrass, are true flowering plants ...
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The Edge of the Gulf: Deep Sea Expedition to the Gulf of Mexico
Larger animals, such as mussels, clams and tube worms have evolved a symbiotic partnership with the bacteria similar to what was originally discovered at ... beds are accessible to submersibles on the deep sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Ice Worms (Hesiocaeca methanicola), a new species only seen in hydrate, were discovered in 1997 by C. ...
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